Su Hao had already guessed what these women were thinking. When he saw his mother giving her an apologetic and expectant look, he smiled slightly, pulled Yang Gendi aside, and whispered: "Mom, this matter
Just do whatever you want, and I will do it for whomever you say."
Yang Gendi said: "Hao'er, I know you want to review your books. This kind of thing should not be asked of you. However, we are all neighbors, and after your father passed away, these people in the village took good care of our family.
I can’t put this down."
"Why should we turn it down?" Su Hao said, "Since they have helped us, wouldn't it be nice for me to help them once and repay the favor I owe them?"
"Oh, it's your mother's fault for talking too much." Yang Gendi was filled with joy after receiving her son's promise, but she still blamed herself severely, and then she went back to the group of women and chatted a few more times with them.
sentence, and then came back and said to Su Hao: "I have agreed with them that you will first help your uncle Jin Wang's house, then Tiangui's house, and then..."
"I can't remember so much. Mom, you should be responsible for remembering the order. I can cook once in half a day, two in a day. Can you arrange it?" Su Hao gave all the power to his mother. Since it is
If you want to repay the favor, then let the mother take the final decision. Naturally, in the future, everyone will think more about the benefits of the mother.
"Can you make it in time this afternoon?" Jin Wang's wife heard from the side that Su Hao had agreed, and hurriedly came forward and asked.
"There's enough time." Su Hao said, "Aunt Jinwang, you go home first and remove the irrelevant things from the kitchen. I'll go to the slope at the east end of the village to pick up some clay. We can start work right away."
"Just ask your Uncle Jin Wang to do the soil lifting." Jin Wang's wife said happily, "I'll go ask him to come back and help now."
Su Hao went back to his room and changed into short clothes for work, and picked up his tools. He was led by Yang Gendi and walked to Su Jinwang's house. As soon as he entered the door, he was welcomed by three generations of Su Jinwang's family.
"Oh, the scholar is here, I'm really troubling you. I said the scholar is very busy at work, so I can't trouble the scholar with such a trivial matter. Changgen's mother insists on asking you to come and help. I can't help it. There are many people in my family.
There is not enough firewood to burn every time. I heard that the stove modified by Xiu Cai Lang is particularly firewood-saving. Look..." Su Jinwang, who was honest and honest, rubbed his hands nervously and said to Su Hao.
"Uncle Jin Wang, look at what you said. You usually help my family a lot. I happened to learn some skills in repairing the stove. What's the big deal?" Su Hao said politely.
"Look, Xiu Cai Lang can talk." Su Jinwang said with a smile, "Xiu Cai Lang, you don't have to do anything. Just tell me what to do and I will do it. Just now I heard Chang Gen's mother say that she is at your house
After looking at it for a long time, I just couldn’t see any difference between your stove and mine, so I said, Xiucai Lang is a Wenqu star from the sky who came down to earth, and the stove he makes must be different from others. If she, a woman, can
If you understand, it’s strange.”
Su Hao smiled and said: "Uncle Jin Wang, please don't praise me. Repairing the stove is not complicated. There are just a few things that are a bit particular. I may need to do it myself. Uncle Jin Wang can help me if he is free."
Just a handful is good.”
"Oh...I know, I know. You can tell me where you can let me take action. I promise not to move where I can't." Su Jinwang looked like he suddenly realized something, and nodded repeatedly.
Su Hao was stunned by Su Jinwang's words. It took him a while to react before he understood, and quickly explained: "Uncle Jin Wang, I didn't mean to hide anything from you..."
Su Jinwang said: "No, no, cooking the stove is a delicate matter. I will definitely not be able to learn it. I will just help the scholar and put in some effort."
Su Hao deliberately told Su Jinwang that in fact, this kind of firewood-saving stove was not complicated. There were just a few key tips to master, and he could teach them all. But after thinking about it, he suddenly felt that this technology should be properly kept secret.
, more valuable. Renovating a fire-saving stove requires little effort, but the effect is very good. It is the most suitable thing to do as a favor. If others can do it, won’t you not be able to do it yourself?
In the previous life, the Ministry of Agriculture promoted firewood-saving stoves across the country in the hope that farmers could master this technology on their own, so the relevant technical specifications were designed to be very simple and easy to understand. Su Hao was just following agricultural technicians in a certain rural area.
After studying for a few days, he fully understood it. Su Hao believed that if he explained these norms to the villagers in the village, they would also be able to master them quickly.
At first, Su Hao did have the idea of promoting this technology, but what Su Jinwang said just now made him suddenly change his mind. In that era, skilled people always kept their skills secret, even in
When it is passed on to future generations, it is always "passed on from son to daughter". Everyone can understand that the craftsmanship of transforming wood-saving stoves is not passed on to other unrelated people.
A person living between heaven and earth must have some unique abilities, so that he can have a foundation for a life. Now, Su Hao can only read a few dead books and has no power to tie a chicken. What can he rely on to survive?
A suspense. In this case, I accidentally discovered that I actually have a technology that others can take a fancy to. Naturally, I should find a way to maximize its benefits.
The principle of wood-saving stoves is very simple to explain, but if no one explains it, it will be difficult for others to understand the mystery. Concepts such as thermal efficiency, thermal radiation, complete combustion, and fluid dynamics were completely understood by no one in the Ming Dynasty.
, not to mention that this is still a rural area in the Ming Dynasty. Without these tools of theoretical analysis, just looking at it with the naked eye is like a layman watching the excitement and unable to understand its true meaning.
In fact, the women who just went to Su Hao's house to visit the firewood-saving stove also thought about it a little bit, but they couldn't see any difference between the stove at Su Hao's house and the stove they were using at home. That's why they needed to ask Su Hao to
That’s why Hao went to help with the renovation.
With Su Jinwang helping by his side, Su Hao's workload was indeed reduced a lot. He left all the things like collecting soil and kneading mud to Su Jinwang. Su Jinwang did as he promised. What did Su Hao ask him to do?
, he just does whatever he wants. Other than that, he will never watch things he shouldn’t watch, lest people misunderstand that he wants to plagiarize Su Hao’s craftsmanship.
Su Hao took Su Jinwang's pot off the stove, used a chisel to chip away some of the original clay in the stove, and also adjusted the position of the smoke outlet. This is an important technical link in making a firewood-saving stove.
It must be ensured that the fresh air coming in from the stove mouth can fully flow in the furnace to ensure an adequate supply of oxygen required for fuel. If other people dismantle the modified stove, they can see the changes inside, but it will be difficult to understand the changes.
The purpose. Therefore, if no one explains it, the efficiency of the stove made by others will be much lower.
After modifying the furnace, the next step was to thicken the furnace wall and make the stove mouth smaller. Su Jinwang could do these things. The last step was to heighten the chimney. Su Hao specified a size and Su Jinwang climbed to the roof to complete it.
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After all the work was done, Su Hao asked Su Jinwang's daughter to take some straw and burn it in the furnace to make the clay dry quickly, while he sat in the main room of Su Jinwang's house and waited.
When Su Hao was about to finish his work, Jin Wang's wife had already rushed to the neighbor's house to borrow a fire and boiled two bowls of rock sugar eggs. At this time, they just brought them over, one bowl for Su Hao and one bowl for Yang Gendi.
"His aunt, we are all neighbors, why are you cooking soup?" Yang Gendi looked at the rock sugar eggs and smiled happily, but she still pretended to blame her. Boiled eggs with rock sugar are called soup in the countryside, and they are used to receive distinguished guests.
etiquette.
At that time, every household was not rich in food and could only raise one or two chickens. Eggs were a rare commodity. Although Su Hao enjoyed the treatment of being the apple of his eye at home, it was not easy for him to eat an egg. In the morning, he took two
She made custard from three eggs and fed it to the whole family, which made Yang Gendi feel very distressed.
Jin Wang's wife said: "Hao Zai is a talented scholar. I feel embarrassed to contribute to my family's affairs like this. His uncle can't help much. I must make a bowl of soup."
In fact, Yang Gendi wished that her son could eat this bowl of eggs. When he heard this, he got off the slope and said, "Hao Zai is sweating so much, just make him a bowl of soup. I have no effort, so this bowl of soup will be enough."
Just give it to the children."
After Yang Gendi declined, Jin Wang's daughter-in-law naturally had to insist again and again. In the end, Su Hao ate two of the three eggs in his bowl and left one. This was also a rule. Leaving one behind meant that he could no longer eat it.
If you eat all three eggs, doesn’t it mean that the owner is not enthusiastic enough and cooks too little?
Yang Gendi was polite again and again, and finally took a bowl, picked out one egg from the bowl in front of her and ate it, leaving two. Jin Wang's wife shouted, and several children in the family rushed out with joy and threw Su Hao
Mother and son shared the three eggs they had saved and ate them.
After tossing like this for a while, the clay in the stove had dried. Su Hao went over and repaired it some more, announcing that it was done. Jin Wang's wife went to light a fire and cook a pot of pig food, and found that the new stove was indeed more powerful.
It was extremely economical on firewood and there was no smoke, so the family complimented Su Hao hard, and even Yang Gendi received some compliments such as "I will definitely enjoy happiness in the future."
Having a stove that can save half of the firewood solves a big problem for the farmer. Su Jinwang also knows that just boiling three eggs to express gratitude is not enough. What Su Jinwang's family does not lack most is labor.
When sending Su Hao and his son out of the house, he patted his chest and said to Yang Gendi that one day he would pick up 20 loads of water for Su Hao's family and water the Su Hao family's fields first, and then water his own fields.